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Waning Crescent
on 23 February
2006
Moon Thursday
phase on 23 February 2006 Thursday is
Waning Crescent, 24 days old Moon is in
Capricorn.

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Moon phase for

23 February 2006
Thursday 12:00 UTC

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Waning Crescent phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

Waning Crescent 27%

illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on 23 February
2006, Thursday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction
of the Moon surface is 27% and getting smaller. The
24 days old Moon is in Capricorn.

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Moon phases for next 7 days

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

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Moon phase and lunation

details

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before
2 days on 21 February 2006 at 07:17.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in
the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to
the east.

Moon is entering Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠2° of Capricorn tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1920"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1920" and ∠1939".

Worm Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2006
after 19 days on 14 March 2006 at 23:35.

Upcoming main Moon phases

New Moon in Pisces after 4 days on

28 February 2006 at 00:31

First Quarter in Gemini after 11 days on

6 March 2006 at 20:16

Full Moon in Virgo after 19 days on

14 March 2006 at 23:35

Last Quarter in Sagittarius after 27 days on

22 March 2006 at 19:10

Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon
gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big
angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Lunation 75 / 1028
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the second to the final part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 75 of Meeus index or
1028 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.43

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and
16 minutes. It is 32 minutes longer than the next
lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic
months are going to increasing with the true anomaly
getting closer to the value it has at the point of New
Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than

mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours
and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month
length. It is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer compared
to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 23

February 2006 Thursday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 347.5°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true
anomaly is ∠347.5°. At the beginning of next synodic
month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.9°.

Moon before apogee

9 days after point of apogee on 14 February 2006 at
00:48 in Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow,
while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will
keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the
Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
27 February 2006 at 20:27 in Aquarius.

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Distance to Moon 373 251 km

The Moon is 373 251 km (231 927 mi) away from
Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the
point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to
be 356 885 km (221 758 mi).

Moon before ascending node

6 days after descending node on 16 February 2006
at 14:38 in Virgo. The Moon is located south of
the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar
orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node
on 1 March 2006 at 16:25 in Pisces.

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Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Aries, the Moon is navigating from the
second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon at southern standstill

At 09:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to
reach South declination of ∠-28.648°. Over the next
12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward
to face maximum declination of ∠28.694° at the point
of next standstill in Cancer on 8 March 2006 at
00:05.

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Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 28 February 2006 at 00:31 in Pisces
the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric
conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

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fl Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary
Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak,
 www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space

Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio,
 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

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